Henry Burford, an Englishman, arrived…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

has met with three accidents, the last one occurred Thursday last. He was coming out of the mine for the last time, having resign- ed his position, when he was caught between an ascending bucket and the timbers, and badly squeezed. He left for California yesterday. ( 124 ) Henry Burford, an Englishman, arrived here from Topolobampo, Mexico, where he had been since July. He walked most of the way. Mr. Burford is anything but favorably impress- ed with the manner in which the colony is run, and states that while the men are ostensibly getting $3 a day, it is all paid in credits, the only groceries they can get being corn meal, beans and Mexican brown sugar, anything else they may require having to be paid for in cash. He is of the opinion that if a man can work for nothing and clothe himself for a number of years, at the end of that time he might have as much as he started in with. He will go from here to Florida. Miss Katie Thompson, the boss potato cul- turist of the southwest, left Monday on a visit to her home in San Antonio, Texas. From the December 25, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise From the Albuquerque Democrat.